Three months had passed since the bloody war began.
The war had largely settled into a routine, and clashes between high-end combatants had become less frequent.
Whenever someone with extraordinary combat strength appeared, someone would be specifically assigned to intercept them.
There was nothing but killing, day after day.
Over those three months, the two sides had suffered more than thirty thousand casualties combined, with nearly a thousand people dying every day.
Though it was called a bloody war, fleeing an unbeatable enemy was perfectly normal. When fighters realized the opposing lineup was too tough to crack, they naturally gave up on fighting.
For pirates, their own lives mattered most.
Money was useless if they did not live to spend it.
Besides, neither side would stand by and watch pirates or Marines far stronger than everyone else slaughter people at will.
As a result, overall casualties were kept under tight control.
Even so, the numbers were staggering.
At this rate, roughly a hundred and twenty thousand people would be buried on this island within a year.
One pirate after another earned a place on the Slaughter Rankings, all of them well-known figures on Blood War Island.
However, the entries were not necessarily individuals. They could be pirate crews or mercenary groups.
At present, the highest Marine kill count belonged to a lone wanderer who went by the code name "North Wind."
He was a renowned assassin in the New World's underworld and a user of the Paramecia-type Clear-Clear Fruit.
With the Clear-Clear Fruit's power, he was practically unstoppable when it came to assassination.
In less than three short months, fifteen hundred people had died at his hands.
That was despite North Wind exercising considerable restraint. After earning three hundred million Beli, he quietly left Blood War Island.
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